[Platapus]

I will have to respectfully disagree with you. I see no point in not voting. If our candidates needed a minimum number of votes instead of a majority of electors I might see some advantage. But they don't. For the office of President there is a minimum number of elector votes that is needed. Electors do not have a choice of not to vote.

If I don't vote, how can I communicate my choice to my electorates? Not that they have to listen to me, but if I don't vote there is a 100% chance they won't know.

One of the problems we have in America is getting people to vote. For a country that likes to fling the word democracy around the world, we are lousy examples. We are lucky to get 60% of our citizens to even give a crap.

Boycotting an election is undemocratic in my opinion.

1. Either my boycott will go totally unnoticed as I would be lumped in with the 40% who don't care and are normally ignored or

2. I would, somehow, influence events by my boycott (somehow make a statement which politicians will notice) which should not happen. Not voting in a democracy should not count more than voting.

I really don't see any advantage to boycotting unless someone wants to call attention to the fact that they did not vote. I don't know how it is in your country but in America once people find out that you did not vote, they usually tell you to STFU. Our culture is that if you did not vote, you have no right to complain.

Politics in America is always a compromise. It is very rare that there is ever a canidate for any office that a citizen agrees with 100%. There is always a trade off.

Sometimes we are lucky and get a chance to choose between the best of two candidates. More often we are unlucky and get a chance to choose between the worst of two candidates.

But choose we must. Voting is a duty to a citizen.

Just an old guy's opinion.